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<li>New/extended platforms:

<ul>

<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/astfb.4">astfb(4)</a>, a

driver for the framebuffer of the Aspeed BMC found on many POWER8 and

POWER9 systems.

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allow it to become the console on powerpc64.

<li>Added support for passing a bootmac command line argument to

RAMDISK on powerpc64.

<li>Fixed booting on powerpc64 machines with memory banks higher in

physical address space, needing a larger TCE table.

<li>Introduced power-saving mode on POWER9 (ISA v3).

</ul>

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<li>Various kernel improvements:

<ul>

<li>Added basic support for kclock timeouts to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/timeout.9">timeout(9)</a>.

<li>Added basic support for kclock timeouts to <a

<li>Added a top-level 'reboot' command to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a>.

href="https://man.openbsd.org/timeout.9">timeout(9)</a>.

<li>Fixed the "entry point at 0x10010000" hang reported on amd64 machines by using a 64MB block to load the kernel.

<li>Added a top-level 'reboot' command to <a

<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/witness.4">witness(4)</a> check for uninitialized (or zeroed) lock usage.

href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a>.

<li>Fixed the "entry point at 0x10010000" hang reported on amd64

machines by using a 64MB block to load the kernel.

<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/witness.4">witness(4)</a>

check for uninitialized (or zeroed) lock usage.

<li>Added fd close notification for kqueue-based <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/poll.2">poll(2)</a> and <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/select.2">select(2)</a>.

<li>Added a global "nowake" channel for threads avoiding <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/wakeup.9">wakeup(9)</a> to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/tsleep.9">tsleep(9)</a>.

<li>Corrected accounting of zero length Transfer Descriptors in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/xhci.4">xhci(4)</a>, preventing running

out of free Transfer Ring Blocks.

<li>Used per-CPU counter for fault and stats counters reached in uvm_fault().

<li>Introduced kern.video.record for <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/video.4">video(4)</a> devices, an analog

to the kern.audio.record <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.8">sysctl(8)</a> parameter for <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/audio.4">audio(4)</a> devices. By

default, kern.video.record will be set to zero and blank all data

delivered by drivers attaching to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/video.4">video(4)</a>.

<li>Added trace points for <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.9">malloc(9)</a> and <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/free.9">free(9)</a>, making them

traceabe via <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dt.4">dt(4)</a> and <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/btrace.8">btrace(8)</a>.

<li>Introduced "if_cloners_lock" rwlock and used it to serialize if_clone_{create,destroy}(), avoiding multiple race conditions.

<li>Introduced a system-wide mutex that serializes msgbuf operations.

<li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uvm_pagealloc.9">uvm_pagealloc(9)</a> of the physical memory allocator mp-safe.

<li>Implemented linux interval tree functions for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a>.

<li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wsconsctl.8">wsconsctl(8)</a> display commands when using <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a> drivers on macppc.

<li>Changed from <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rwlock.9">rwlock(9)</a> to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mutex.9">mutex(9)</a> for linux rwlocks.

<li>Fixed a panic associated with locks and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a> on macppc with Powerbook5,6 and RV350.

<li>Revised the initialization of the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a> Linux emulation layer to call it only when the first drm instance attaches.

<li>Fixed DRI3 support on <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amdgpu.4">amdgpu(4)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ati.4">ati(4)</a>.

</ul>

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<li>Prevented process exit in multithreaded programs from reporting

the wrong error code.

<li>Allowed booting of amd64/i386 from 4TB GPT formatted disks.

<li>When using the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cat.1">cat(1)</a>

-n flag, correctly enumerate files with more than INT_MAX lines.

<li>Fixed a memory leak in ld.so's malloc.

</ul>

<li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:

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href="https://man.openbsd.org/umass.4">umass(4)</a> devices where the

INQUIRY command succeeds but with a residue equal to the requested

bytes.

<li>Added Gemini Lake I2C id to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwiic.4">dwiic(4)</a>, making the

touchpad work on the Teclast F7 Plus laptop.

<li>Optimized arm64 <a

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<li>Added support for the VF610 I2C controller to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/imxiic.4">imxiic(4)</a>.

<li>Fixed a panic seen with mbuf chains on arm64.

<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwgpio.4">dwgpio(4)</a>, a

driver for the Synopsys DesignWare GPIO controller.

<li>Added "amlogic,meson-g12a-dwmac" to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwge.4">dwge(4)</a>.

<li>Added <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/amlpinctrl.4">amlpinctrl(4)</a> support

for the "Always On" GPIOs.

<li>Added PCIe clocks to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/amlclock.4">amlclock(4)</a>.

<li>Made large read and write transactions work in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/amliic.4">amliic(4)</a>.

<li>Added PCIe support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amlpciephy.4">amlpciephy(4)</a>.

<li>Added support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwpcie.4">dwpcie(4)</a> for the PCIe controller found on Amlogic G12A/G12B/SM1 SoCs.

</ul>

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<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvsw.4">mvsw(4)</a>, a

driver for Marvel "SOHO" switches.

<li>Enabled auto-negotiation on the SerDes links, allowing

in-band-status to work between <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvpp.4">mvpp(4)</a> and <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvsw.4">mvsw(4)</a> on the ClearFog GT

8K.

<li>Added support for the i.MX8MP PCIe clocks, USB clocks and second

ethernet.

<li>Added Wake on LAN support to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/rge.4">rge(4)</a>.

<li>Enabled IPv4 and TCP/UDP checksum offload on transmission in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/ogx.4">ogx(4)</a>.

</ul>

<li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:

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href="https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4">bwfm(4)</a> to allow IPv6.

<li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/urtwn.4">urtwn(4)</a>

repeated DEAUTH and loss/restoration of link.

<li>Introduced a delay to work around an issue in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4">bwfm(4)</a> on the BCM43602 that

was triggering "unexpected pairwise key update" errors.

</ul>

<li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:

<ul>

<li>...

<li>Fixed the calculation of "maxlen" in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> and <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> when there are

multiple MPDUs in one packet.

<li>Fixed 802.11 RSN capabilities announced to peers.

<li>Flushed the reorder buffer after gap timeout to prevent frames

from remaining in the buffer until the next frame is received.

<li>Avoided spurious "input packet decapsulations failed" errors in

<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstat.1">netstat(1)</a> -W with

A-MSDU enabled.

</ul>

<li>Generic network stack improvements and bugfixes:

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<li>Installer improvements:

<ul>

<li>...

<li>Prevented a race in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a> privsep

which could cause autoinstall to fail by calling <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/ftp.1">ftp(1)</a> without a local

address.

<li>Fixed hangs on amd64 bsd.rd due to misreported core clock

frequency on newer Intel Comet Lake models.

</ul>

<li>Improvements in the FFS2 filesystem:

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href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> roa-set lists.

<li>Stopped allowing configuration of the same neighbor multiple

times in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>.

<li>When exporting prefixes from multiple sessions in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> into the same <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> table, now prefixes are

only removed from the table when withdrawn from all sessions that

announced them.

<li>Introduced a send hold timer in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> to detect stalls on

the sending side of a TCP connection, acting as a last resort to

detect faulty peers.

<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpctl.8">bgpctl(8)</a>

"show sets" to display information about the roa-set, as-sets and

prefix-sets loaded into <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>.

<li>Created a new "location (found|notfound)" option for <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.conf.5">httpd.conf(5)</a> to allow

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IKESA.

<li>Ensured rekeying of every child SA in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>.

<li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a> support

for RSASSA-PSS signature verification (RFC 7427).

<li>Corrected the first packet of an <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/ipsec.4">ipsec(4)</a> SA to have

sequence number 1.

<li>Accepted reject and blackhole routes for IPsec PMTU discovery.

<li>Prevented leaking of ipsec_hosts in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a> when building

hosts_list.

<li>Prevented initiation of new additional SAs for each policy upon

every <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ikectl.8">ikectl(8)</a> config

reload.

<li>Fixed "any" and "dynamic" keywords for flows in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a> and added proper

IPv6 support.

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href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> to accept any valid

routing domain, even if it does not yet exist.

<li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>

detect and reject bogus ranges before loading the ruleset to prevent a

panic.

<li>Implemented RFC 8914 Extended DNS Errors for <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dig.1">dig(1)</a>.

<li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dig.1">dig(1)</a> EDNS

Client Subnet option (+subnet=).

<li>Fixed IPv6 link-local address handling for nameservers to talk to

and address to bind to in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dig.1">dig(1)</a>.

<li>Fixed incorrect behavior when using <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.conf.5">dhclient.conf(5)</a> to

change the lease renew/rebind/expiry timing.

<li>Allowed the provision of <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a> options on

"dhcp" lines in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/hostname.if.5">hostname.if(5)</a> files.

<li>Changed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ping.8">ping(8)</a> to

drain the raw socket of packets received before we were fully setup to

avoid reporting ICMP responses intended for other instances of ping(8)

running in parallel.

<li>Implemented RFC 8914 Extended DNS Errors for <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dig.1">dig(1)</a>.

<li>Changed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a>

Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) to only generate a new address if we

are using Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers.

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are larger than the maximum imsg size.

<li>Removed the -L option from <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>.

<li>Fixed incorrect behavior when using <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.conf.5">dhclient.conf(5)</a> to

change the lease renew/rebind/expiry timing.

<li>Added a simple --timeout implementation to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/openrsync.1">openrsync(1)</a>.

<li>Added support for the use of !command to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/mygate.5">mygate(5)</a>, so that

netstart has a late opportunity to perform network configuration.

<li>Make <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a> to handle

multiple rdomains in a single daemon (instead of running it in

multiple rdomains).

<li>Added a specific headline to <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstat.1">netstat(1)</a> for TCP state

and IP protocol.

<li>Handled permanent redirects (RFC 7538) in <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/ftp.1">ftp(1)</a> fetch.

</ul>

<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:

<ul>

<li>...

<li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> synchronize-panes a pane option and added set-option -U flag to unset an option on all panes.

</ul>

<li>OpenSMTPD 6.9.0

<ul>

<li>...

<li>Introduced <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtp.1">smtp(1)</a>

-a to perform authentication before sending a message.

<li>Fixed a memory leak in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a> resolver.

<li>Prevented a crash due to premature release of resources by the <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a> filter state

machine.

</ul>

<li>LibreSSL 3.2.2

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connect in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>.

<li>CLeaned up passing of struct passwd from monitor to preauth

privsep process in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>.

<li>Added an <a

href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config.5">ssh_config(5)</a>

KnownHostsCommand that allows the client to obtain known_hosts data

from a command in addition to the usual files.

<li>Potentially incompatible changes.

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<li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:

<ul>

<li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.20.8 + patches,

<li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.20.10 + patches,

freetype 2.10.4, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 20.0.8, xterm 351,

xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.0 and more)

xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.1 and more)

<li>LLVM/Clang 10.0.1 (+ patches)

<li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)

<li>Perl 5.30.3 (+ patches)

<li>NSD 4.3.3

<li>NSD 4.3.4

<li>Unbound 1.12.0

<li>Unbound 1.13.0

<li>Ncurses 5.7

<li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)

<li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)

<li>Awk August 7, 2020 version

<li>Awk December 18, 2020 version

<li>Expat 2.2.8

<li>Expat 2.2.10

</ul>